Don Overall

Sad to report that former TT rider and road racer on two and three wheels, Don Overall, died last week. He was coming up to his 100th birthday.

He was a lovely old boy with a wicked sense of humour and a fund of fascinating and often hilarious stories about our sport and its many characters. He had been as sharp as a razor mentally and on very good form until a fall the other day, which precipitated his rapid decline. He was the oldest member of the Greenwich Motor and Motorcycle Club, and had been the star attraction in the club's first "An Audience With ...." conversation which I was privileged to host in March 2008, when he delighted a large gathering of enthusiasts with some extraordinary and very funny stories.

I will write a Don Overall retrospective in the next week or three, based on that and subsequent conversations, and will post some of it here for your amusement.

In the meanwhile, Don's funeral is next Wednesday 21st November, 12.30pm at Falconwood crematorium (Eltham, Kent).